gastro ./ lower gastrointestinal bleeding
Gastro-oesophageal Reflux, Factors That Determine It And Treatments
By Groshan Fabiola
Gastro-oesophageal reflux is a condition that appears if the lower oesophageal sphincter is abnormally relaxed. Because of the abnormally relaxed oesophageal sphincter, stomach's acidic contents can reflux into the gullet. This fact can also provoke heartburn, and if this happens daily, you must contact your doctor in order to receive medical care and advices.
Repeated episodes of gastro-oesophageal reflux can cause oesophagitis, which is the inflammation of the inner lining of the oesophagus. Gastro-esophageal reflux oesophagitis usually comes with symptoms like a burning or a painful sensation in the upper abdomen or chest, that sometimes radiates to the back, some patients can have breathing difficulties and suffer from hoarseness, and also excess belching can appear.
It was observed that gastro-oesophageal reflux appears especially after eating a large or fatty meal, drinking alcohol, lying down, bending over or bending and lifting. Usually, symptoms occur rarely, but there are also cases when they appear weekly, or even daily.
It is also known that smoking makes the gastro-oesophageal reflux to become much worse.
Gastro-oesophageal reflux can have a great influence in our lifestyle, the quality of our life can become lower. This disease can provoke oesophagitis if you are exposed for a long time to refluxed acid, and also, if oesophagitis lasts for a long time, it will lead to complications. There can appear a scar-tissue that contracts and a narrowing will come in the affected part of the oesophagus. Of course, this is a grave situation, the patient will have great difficulties when we wants to swallow, or he will not be able to swallow at all. He will need immediately medical care, but fortunately, this complication is rare.
The oesophageal sphincter, which is the muscular ring situated near the diaphragm, at the lower end of the oesophagus is functioning as one-way valve. It has the role to prevent stomach contents from flowing upward. When the sphincter is not working properly, stomach acid will flow into the oesophagus. It is not known the exact cause of gastro-oesophageal reflux apparition, but there are a few conditions that surely contribute to this problem.
If the patient has an overweight problem, the excessive fat in the abdominal cavity makes the pressure inside it to increase. That determines the contents of the stomach to travel up into the gullet.
Hiatus hernia is also a problem that can
lead to gastro-oesophageal reflux apparition. The oesophagus remains open because the diaphragm is not closing the lower end, and stomach acid will enter into the oesophagus.
In pregnancy, the uterus increases in size, it presses the stomach ,and the possibility of the reflux to come grows.
You should avoid tobacco, some foods like peppermint, coffee, fruit juices, chocolate and alcohol, and also you must take in consideration that lying down makes the reflux tendency to increase.
Usually, the symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux are obvious, so no tests are needed, but the doctor can perform some tests if he has doubts. For example, he can perform a gastroscopy, or can measure the acidity in the lower end of the oesophagus during a 24-hour period. There exists another method too, used only in complicated cases, and that is called oesophageal manometry.
If you want to reduce the risk of developing reflux, you should stop smoking, drink less coffee and alcohol, avoid high-fat meals, and try to lose weight if it is necessary.
If you do not have frequent symptoms, you can treat with antacids and histamine antagonists, no medical attention being needed, but if symptoms are very unpleasant, and the heartburn is frequent, you must go to the doctor at once.The doctor will determine if there are necessary some tests, or if you need stronger medication.
Usually antacids successfully have effect in controlling the symptoms, but if antacid medication fails, the doctor will prescribe medicines called histamine H2 antagonists, and next , if it is needed, proton pump inhibitors. There exist also a small number of cases that require laparoscopical procedure, where the oesophageal sphincter is strengthened. Article Source: http://www.articlemap.com For more resources about acid reflux or especially about acid reflux treatment please click this link www.acid-reflux-info-guide.com/acid-reflux-treatment.htm
Semantic versioning is hard; let's go build a rocket
Wow!
I found another bug from the depths of time in mod_blog,
or rather, CGILib,
which mod_blog uses.
And again,
this goes back right when I first wrote the code,
possibly back in the late 1990s.
And again,
it's amazing that it took me this long (less than an hour ago) to trigger it!
When I made my previous post,
the title came out incorrectly as ?Error ID10T? when it should have been ?Error ID10T: PEBKAC?.
Somehow,
any text after the colon was being swallowed up somewhere.
It didn't take long to find the culpret in the function PairNew() and this bit of code:
src = *psrc;
p = todelim(src,&sname,delim,eos);
name = malloc(sname + 1);
if (name == NULL)
return NULL;
memcpy(name,src,sname);
name[sname] = '\0';
if (*p == delim)
{
src = p + 1;
p = todelim(src,&svalue,delim,eos); // WRONG!
}
else
svalue = 0;
This function is used to parse a header line like Title: Error ID10T: PEBKAC and turn it into two values,
TITLE and Error ID10T: PEBKAC.
It's the line labeled ?wrong? that points to the problem?I was checking for another occurance of delim
(in this case, it's a colon)
and ignoring anything past that when it shouldn't.
Sigh.
Like most bugs,
the fix is easy,
but what I do next is difficult.
I (try to) use semantic versioning for CGILib,
although there are two issues here?one,
this is a bug so obviously the fixed version should be 8.0.8,
but on the other hand,
this introduces an incompatible change so the next version should be 9.0.0.
On the gripping hand,
it changes what I consider incorrect behavior and aligns the function to better reflect its name,
so maybe version 8.0.8?
I think for CGILib this is largely academic,
as I don't think anyone really uses the library except me.
I shall have to think on this one.
]]>
Error ID10T: PEBKAC
Another errand Bunny and I did yesterday was to pick up a new black ink cartridge for the printer
(which cost about half the price of the printer,
but that's another rant for another time).
We got home,
and I replaced the cartridge.
Later that night,
Bunny attempted to print out The New York Times Crossword Puzzle,
as she does every night.
Only it did not print properly.
No black was being printed.
We futzed with it for some time,
and Bunny was able to get enough of the crossword puzzle to work with it,
but overall,
the black was problematic.
I was fearful that we to buy a new printer.
After a night's rest,
I had a thought?Bunny mentioned a problem with the printer yesterday,
and when I checked,
it stated it was out of black ink.
I opened the printer up,
and removed the black catridge,
but the existing cartridges we had were for the previous printer.
So that's when we went out running several errands and eating dinner.
There were several hours when the printer was open,
sans an ink cartridge,
so maybe whatever ink was left in the print head had dried up,
blocking the ink from flowing.
Maybe some denatured alcohol could clean that up.
I removed the new cartridge,
cleaned the area where the ink goes into the print head,
and when I was putting the cartridge back in,
I noticed a small tag on the cartridge sticking out.
Don't tell me, I thought.
Did I forget to remove the ?remove me before installing? tag?
Yup.
D'oh!
The printer works fine now.
Sigh.
]]>
This ?Internet? camera is only 21 years old?it should still work, right? Right?
One of the errands we ran today was stopping by the storage unit to retrieve the Christmas decorations.
While there,
I saw a box containing a D-Link DCS-900W WiFi-enabled Internet camera.
I have no recollection of having ever bought it,
nor using it.
No clue,
but I thought it might be fun to play around with it.
How hard could it be?
For starters,
you need Windows to configure the device.
The CD that came with the device only had two types of files on it?PDFs and Microsoft executables.
Undaunted,
I figured the device might also some with a web-based interface.
Or at least,
I hoped it did.
Not only did it come with Wi-Fi
(and the antenna had definitely seen better days?it was only later when putting it back in the box did it start disintegrating,
but I'm getting ahead of myself here),
but it came with an Ethernet jack.
Easy enough to plug into the ?wireless service unit.?
Then I just had to find it on the network.
No go.
Reading the manual,
you can reset the device to factory settings by using a paperclip to hit the rescessed reset button.
That's easy enough.
But then I read that the factory setting uses an IP address of 192.168.0.20.
That was going to be a problem.
At some point since this device was made
(back in 2004 according to a date in the instruction manual)
commerical network devices went from assuming a private network address of 192.168.0.0/24 back in the day to 192.168.1.0/24 in these more englightened times.
But I'm not going to renumber my entire network for a camera.
Okay,
think ?
I pulled out of storage a laptop with an Ethernet port,
and a small,
five port Ethernet switch.
It would be easier to set up a small network of three devices.
I power up the laptop,
log in,
and find that the space bar doesn't work.
Every other key works,
except for the space bar.
Okay,
think ?
First,
I try Deoxit,
assuming maybe the spacebar switch has oxidized.
That failed.
Then I tried using some denatured alcohol to clean the actual contacts.
That failed.
It was not going to be easy to type commands into the xterm to reconfigure?wait a second!
I have an xterm running.
There's a space character on the terminal!
I can copy the space character into the clipbard and use that!
It wasn't pretty,
but it meant I could type
ip<paste from clipboard>addr<paste from clipboard>add<paste from clipboard>192.168.0.1<paste from clipboard>dev<paste from clipboard>eth0
and continue on with the increasing weirdness of the situation.
I was correct that one could configure the device from the web.
I set it up to obtain an IP address via DHCP so I no longer needed the ad-hoc network and a spacebar-less laptop
(this only took three attempts to get correct).
I could now reach it from the normal network,
only I never saw a picture.
I can't use the Active-X link because I'm not running Windows
(and is Active-X even a thing in 2025?
I honestly don't know).
The Java applet didn't run because I'm not up to date on Java
(I don't use the language for anything)
and the links to update it are long gone for my OS.
And the static image from just the web doesn't work because the link the camera generates doesn't exist on the camera!
Well then ? so much for an Internet camera.
Back into the box it goes.
]]>
Extreme Enlightened tree, Minecraft edition
Bunny and I were running some errands when we decided to stop and get a bite to eat at a local restaurant.
Outside I saw the most amazing enlightened tree I've seen in several years?it was like something straight out of Minecraft:
Unfortunately,
Jack Black wasn't anywhere nearby with Lava Chicken.
Ah well ?
]]>
|
![[A tree with white Christmas lights covering the trunk and green Christmas lights in the canopy, looking very much like a Minecraft tree] But unlike Minecraft, this tree canopy is a cylinder and not blocks.](/2025/11/29/mctree.jpg "But unlike Minecraft, this tree canopy is a cylinder and not blocks.")
